In 2002, President George W. Bush enunciated a new foreign policy doctrine, the "Bush Doctrine," which held, in part, that
A) the United States was prepared to wage preemptive war against perceived threats, with or without allies.
B) the United States would go to war with any country that attacked it.
C) Islamists would not be allowed to take power in any additional nations.
D) America would leave the United Nations if that body did not support its military initiatives.
E) the United States would no longer participate in the World Trade Organization or in the World Bank.

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The Bush Doctrine emphasized that the United States would not hesitate to use military force preemptively against perceived threats, even without the support of allies. This was seen in the United States' decision to invade Iraq in 2003 based on the belief that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction and posed a direct threat to American security.